Common Fever (novel)

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Marsh fever ( Spanish Cañas y Barro ) ("reeds and mud") is a novel by the Spanish writer Vicente Blasco Ibáñez .

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The novel was written between September and November 1902 at Playa de la Malvarosa in Valencia ( Spain ) and was published in the same year. It is a naturalistic novel and takes place in the Albufera lagoon landscape south of Valencia, a rice-growing area in which the simple rural population has to earn their daily living by hunting, fishing and growing rice. In terms of content, the focus is on the battle of the sexes and the great ambitions of a young, pleasure-seeking woman ( Neleta ), on whose ambition and cool calculation to get as much fame and reputation as possible as the main character, as well as her friend Tonet , who in the end his tragic Ends. While Tonet is looking for military adventures and fighting in the war in Cuba, Neleta marries the richest man ( Canamel ) in the area. When they return, both enter into an adulterous relationship that results in a child. Her husband dies and, in order to keep the inheritance entirely, she refuses to marry the lover, whom she asks to abandon their child after the birth. Tonet turns out to be too weak to carry out this task and knows no other way out than to drown the newborn in the swamp. After realizing his immense guilt, he only has to commit suicide to evade his responsibility. Eventually he is buried by his relatives in the swamp.

reception

The work was included in the list of the 100 best stories of the 20th century by the Spanish newspaper El Mundo . The German translation, Gutenberg Book Guild, had sold 60,000 copies by 1933.

In Kindler's Literature Lexicon , Aurelio Fuentes Rojo writes: "The narrative is extremely dynamic, and the language impresses with its extraordinarily rich vocabulary and great visual power."

In 1978 the broadcaster Televisión Española (TVE) broadcast a six-part television series Cañas y barro .

Text output

  • Cañas y barro. Prometeo, Valencia 1902.
  • Mala fever. Justified translation from Spanish by Otto Albrecht van Bebber. Gutenberg Book Guild, Berlin 1929.
  • Reeds and mud. (cañas y barro). Newly translated by Alfred Pocher. Edition Oberkassel, Düsseldorf 2013, ISBN 978-3-943121-16-2 .

The work has been translated into English, French, Italian, Japanese, Dutch, Portuguese, Serbian, Croatian and Esperanto.

literature

  • Christopher L. Anderson: Primitives, Patriarchy, and the Picaresque in Blasco Ibáñez's Cañas Y Barro . Scripta Humanistica, 1995.
  • Ezio Levi: V. Blasco Ibanez e il suo capolavoro Cañas y barro. Soc. On. Editrice La voce, 1922.
  • Charles-Vincent Aubrun: Cañas y barro de Blasco Ibáñez: sens et formes, structure et signification. M. Hueber, 1968.
  • Jeremy T. Medina: The artistry of Blasco Ibáñez's "Cañas y barro". In: Hispania , Worcester, Massachusetts, Volume 60, 1977, No. 2, pp. 275-284.
  • César Besó Portalés: Estudio del naturalismo en la obra "Cañas y barro". Parte I . In: Espéculo. Revista de estudios literarios. Universidad Complutense de Madrid, number 32, 2006.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ El Mundo : Lista completa de las 100 mejores novelas en castellano del siglo XX. Retrieved October 7, 2015 (Spanish).
  2. ↑ Quoted from: Kindlers Literatur Lexikon , dtv edition 1974, Volume 5, p. 1738.
  3. ↑ Montse Fayós: The series “Cañas y Barro”, un acierto televisivo. ( Memento of the original from July 14, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. In: Arte y Libertad , number 13, June 2002 and number 14, September 2002. Retrieved October 7, 2015 (Spanish). @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.arteylibertad.org